National Photographic Portrait Prize

The National Photographic Portrait Prize is an annual portraiture competition held at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia.
The major sponsor of the prize in 2022 is the gallery itself, which awards to the winner, while Canon provides camera equipment worth over.

Past winners

2007 — Robert Scott-Mitchell
2009 — Ingvar Kenne
2010 — Scott Bycroft
2011 — Jacqueline Mitelman
2012 — Roderick McNicol
2013 — Janelle Low
2014 — Andrew Cowe
2015 — Hoda Afshar
2016 — Elizabeth Looker
2017 — Gary Grealy
2018 — Lee Grant
2019 — Alana Holmberg
2020 — Rob Palmer
2021 — Joel B. Pratley
2022 — Wayne Quilliam
2023 — Shea Kirk
2024 — Amos Gebhardt
2025 – Hoda Afshar, for "Untitled #01 "

Highly Commended

2014 — David Apostol
2015 — Katherine Williams
2016 — Sean Davey
2017 — John Benavente; Brett Canet-Gibson
2018 — Filomena Rizzo
2019 — Alex Vaughan
2020 — Hugh Stewart
2021 — Julian Kingma
2022 — Adam Ferguson
2023 — Renae Saxby

People's Choice

2012 — John McRae
2015 — Natalie Grono
2016 — Matthew Newton
2017 — Brett Canet-Gibson
2018 — Harold David
2019 — Kate Atkinson
2020 — Klarissa Dempsey
2022 — Luther Tora
2023 — Bruce Agnew
2025 — Em Jensen

Art Handlers' Award

2017 — Tobias Titz
2018 — Stephanie Simcox
2019 — Elizabeth Looker
2020 — Shea Kirk
2021 — Kristina Kraskov
2022 — Adam Haddrick
2023 — David Cossini
2025 — George Fetting

First Time Finalist Award

2025 — Sherry Quiambao